#in defense of men

[aikoiya]

I wanna see more stories of women defending men from false allegations.

More women hearing other women complaining about a man not associating with them in work, she defends him saying he literally did nothing & calling those other women spoiled & attention seekers & sexually deviant.

I wanna see more women being good & decent with good morals, standing up for the men around them even if they get nothing out of it because it's the right thing to do.

Because for years, women have been telling men, "don't flirt with me," "don't talk to me," "don't look at me." Then, when men totally cut them off, these same women whine & complain that men don't associate with them beyond professionally, saying it creates a "hostile work environment?"

Like, he literally did nothing!! How is that hostile in any form or fashion!?

We need more good, upright, sensible women with good ethics out there defending innocent men who just wanna go about their lives.

Rad Feminism has utterly destroyed dating & that's making the lives of women who actually want to be wives & mothers, in particular, much much more difficult because men just don't want to take the risk of finding the right girl anymore!

Let's be realistic ladies! We need men & they need us! So, get back to treating the good men like the fucking kings that they are!

Did you know that it's actually a felony if a man doesn't register for the selective service? For them to have the right to vote, they have to be subject to the draft.

We get to enjoy the right to vote just for being here, but men don't! How is that fair!?

Why don't rad feminists clamour for that??

If you really wanted equality, demand that we too should be required to register for selective service!

As for male rapists not being jailed for long enough, you are absolutely right!

They should suffer longer jail time.

And so should female rapists!

At least male rapists actually get jail time. A girl recently raped a 13 year old boy & is now having his baby, but she gets to walk free, no jail time at all! Not only that, but she gets to keep the baby!

And, guess what? It's looking like the kid might end up having to pay child support anyway despite being a boy & a victim of rape.

Yes, we are absolutely the oppressed party here!

#anti feminism #men's rights #in defense of men #equalist #true equality #anti discrimination

[crystalmethsthings]

neil when nicky said girls were too soft for him:

#andrew admitted to killing tilda and his only thoughts were: that’s valid #nicky said girls were too soft (physically) and he was immediately in defense mode #he’s the biggest feminist #aftg #all for the game #the foxhole court #andrew minyard #tfc #neil josten #aftg hc #aftg headcanon #the raven king #aftg incorrect quotes #aftg trilogy #the king's men #tkm #trk #incorrect aftg #nicky hemmick

[antiyourwokehomophobia2]

The prevalence of male violence means that the chances of a woman telling the truth about a man hurting her is INFINITELY more likely than the chances of her lying, but people will still believe the man over her

#I'm not saying women never lie #Of course they do #But if your first instinct is that she is a liar then you are unscientific #I feel like it's a defense mechanism tbh #If you believe every woman then you have to come to the conclusion that there's an astonishing number of bad men #And most people cannot handle that thought #It's depressing agony #It's better to assume most women are lying #But alas

[sage-nebula]

Sonic fandom, if we could muster enough energy to get Paramount to fix ugly Sonic for his crimes of being ugly, then we can muster that same energy to get them to fire James Marsden from all future Sonic Movie projects after 3 for his crimes of writing a letter defending a self-admitted child rapist and then not bothering to say as much as "I shouldn't have done that, my bad" almost a month after his defense of said child rapist was made public. We can do this. I believe in us.

#obviously it's too late to do anything about him being in Sonic Movie 3 but there's hope for the future movies still #james marsden #tom wachowski #scu #sonic movie #sonic cinematic universe #the man literally said the child rapist had undergone ''the suffering of 100 men'' bc he was caught #what about the 15yo he raped and tortured James? hm? how do you think HE felt??? #idk about y'all but if MY bestie did what Brian Peck did she wouldn't be my bestie anymore! i wouldn't be writing letters in her defense! #and if he didn't know the full story? SAY SO #but he has said NOTHING and it's been almost a MONTH #that silence is DAMNING #fire this man fr

[twobrokenwyngs]

the way charles looks at erik (enamored, heartbroken) - companion to this post

#x-men #xmfc #cherik #charles xavier #erik lensherr #he's worn every emotion on his face since the moment they met #he's incredibly open as it is but around erik... no defenses at all

[disteal]

sharing your transmasc headcanons about female characters requires, like, 4 weeks of casing someone’s vibe. If everything checks out you can drop the batshit 40 page manifesto on top surgery allegory in the narrative. But you gotta make sure.

#this is true both ways ppl are very defensive abt ‘losing gay men’ to transfem headcanons as well #but oh boy #trans men are birthed fully formed from the head of zeus #lest we remember we lost a heroic tomboy 😔 #dis.txt

[ella-error505]

Jesus is my virtue

And Judas is the demon I cling to I cling to

#rhaenicent #house of the dragon #alicent hightower #rhaenyra targaryen #hotd #It's Easter #so I confess #I'm Team Black #but I have a weakness for redheads #tragedy #and MILFs #pro alicent hightower #I will take cake of them both #team “too many men” #olivia cooke #emma darcy #pro team black #pro team blacks #alicent hightower defense squad

[sarcasticscribbles]

I know you say you draw hot men and eldeitch horrors seperately, but Peter and Elias on your latest are truly embodying both out here.

Elias looks like he wears a glove to shake your hand and Peter like he forgot to feed the cat

#but in like a sexy way #Asdfggh #thank you #in my defense I never claimed to separate the two eldritch horror can be hot men 2024 #the magnus archives #tma #mag #elias bouchard #peter lukas

[firethekitty]

post-canon vashwood that can’t keep their hands off each other. post-canon vashwood that follow each other around like shadows, to the point where people will ask where the other is if they’re alone. post-canon vashwood who are constantly hugging and prefer each other’s laps to a chair because they are not going to lose each other again. do you get what i’m saying

#me when men have a borderline unhealthy level of codependency 😍 #trigun #vashwood #talking #also defensive/possessive vashwood is my bread and butter. which is basically canon already but you know what i mean #my favorite flavor of vashwood is when they’re fucking obsessed with each other but in like a not-insane way but they are #insane in every other way. and they love each other more than anything or anyone else but they will regularly beat the shit out of each #other just as like a daily ritual. it’s fun for them. it’s enrichment. am i making sense

[aikoiya]

DPxDC Rant - Superman Isn't A Clonophobe

Hey, this is basically just a compilation of all my thoughts in regards to the subject of Clark being a clonophobe & a bad person from @nelkcats & @wolfeyedwitch's posts on the subject.

A lot of this is just retreading old ground, but I realized that I don't have a post of my own on the subject. I thought I did, but I don't. So, this is just me putting it all out there in one spot. I might add onto it later, but right now, this is good enough.

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I think Supes is a genuinely nice guy & if someone were to actually try & talk to him about it, he could get to a point where he realizes that he was wrong about Kon & be genuinely apologetic.

Like, everyone's so busy demonizing him over the clone thing that a lot of people don't look at the situation from his perspective.

I just... I guess that I see it as victim-blaming. Not that Connor isn't also a victim, but Lex stole Clark's DNA without his permission & used it to create another person who he wanted to use against Superman. That's basically baby-trapping which is a thing that legit happens & it isn't right.

Woman who impregnated self with stolen semen from billionaire wins child support battle (vanguardngr.com)

So, yes! If you're pro-choice, but also think that the man should pay child support even if he never wanted the kid or you think that Supes shouldn't be allowed to say that he doesn't want Connor in his life, then that is both hypocritical, sexist, & misandristic.

At the same time, Supes' situation could also be considered analogous to a rape victim being forced to keep the baby & raise it despite having been so thoroughly traumatized by the experience.

Like, women these days can freely get abortions or give their kids up for adoption when the abortion doesn't work & it's considered brave & even merciful, but when Clark is put in the exact same position & he doesn't want anything to do with Connor, he's a horrible clonophobe?? Yes, it's horrible, but there is a definite double standard there.

Hell, there are even people these days debating if it's moral for a woman to tell the doctors not to aide the baby when the abortion does fail! And in California, a bill was suggested that would make it perfectly legal for a woman to just up & decide to let her child, one alive outside the womb & no longer attached to the mother, to starve to death if she decides she doesn't want to be a mother anymore despite her life in no way being in danger from the child & adoption being an option! It's just... frivolous!!

And that's perfectly fine, apparently!

Yet, a man who doesn't want to be a father is forced to provide child support? There are even situations where a woman knows that the baby isn't his, but tricks him into thinking it is in order to get that sweet, sweet child support.

(4) How common is it for a woman to intentionally get pregnant to trap a man? Do you know anyone this has happened to? - Quora

You can't deny that it happens! Yet, *nasally voice* oh, the man's responsible. He shouldn't have had sex with her if he didn't want a kid. He did that to her! He got her pregnant! Nyeh-nyeh-nyeh-nyeh-nyeh!

*normal voice* Good grief, why the double standards?

If the man is responsible because if he didn't want a baby, he shouldn't have been having sex, then the same is true of women. If they didn't want kids, then they shouldn't have been having sex either! Period!

Like, don't get me wrong, Clark is absolutely wrong for the way he treated Connor, but it's still understandable why he reacted that way. He was hurt!

Again, it's by no means a good reason to act that way, but it is a reason & an understandable one at that.

Clark is a down home, salt of the earth, good ol' boy & I just think that if the JL had informed Ma & Pa of the situation, then things would've been sorted out much sooner. They'd straighten their boy out quick! And if Clark is still determined to be stubborn & hard-headed about it, then if nothing else, I can see Ma & Pa taking Connor in & giving him all the love he deserves.

To me, this is the Superman I know:

And this is why I think that people are too hard on Supes:

All-in-all, I don't think that he'd be opposed to all clones. Rather, I feel like he has a problem with Kon, specifically, for a very misguided reason.

Besides, Danny has no room to criticize because even though he reacted differently to the revelation of Dani's existence, he is also canonically known to misplace his aggressions. It's even made into a joke in the show. Like, they verbally address it!

One such instance is in the Fright Before Christmas episode where he says that he hates Christmas, but by seeing his reasoning, you realize that it isn't actually Christmas itself that he's angry at, but his parents who argue constantly during Christmas & allow said arguing to ruin the Christmases of those around them.

And, you can pretend that this wasn't a situation of misplaced aggression, but keep in mind that he went to the Ghost Zone to destroy a bunch of Christmas items to take out his aggression on the holiday even though it's just the background for the source of his anger. Then, upon learning that the book he'd destroyed was a Christmas one, his apology turned to satisfaction! He also said so himself!

That's a form of misplaced aggression.

Displaced aggression is defined as "occurs when an animal or human is fearful or agitated by external stimuli, a provocation, or perception, but is unable or unwilling to direct their aggression toward the stimulus. The aggressor may direct aggression toward whoever is nearest." That's exactly what's happening here!

I theorize that he subconsciously feels like it's preferable to hate Christmas than to actually confront his parents' negligence & be angry at them.

Keep in mind, he never blames his parents for their unsafe practices that lead to him half dying.

Danny points his frustrations towards those who aren't at fault all the time. Maybe not in the case of Dani, but definitely in other situations.

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Furthermore, I also feel like I have to clarify that I grew up watching Smallville, which is sort of a prequel to the Superman saga.

And, in it, (spoiler warning) for a lot of the earlier seasons, Clark & Lex are friends. Like, legit good friends.

So, that probably colors my perspective as, from my point of view, being betrayed so severely by someone who was once your friend hurts a whole hell of a lot worse than someone who's always been your enemy. Especially when you've got as big of a heart with as much love in it as Clark. When you love so freely, it's easy to get hurt & in a lot of ways, it hurts worse when those you trust most betray you.

Also, Smallville? Fun show, ya'll should totally check it out.

Now, anyway, I admit that this probably isn't the case with most iterations of Superman, but I can't help that this was one of my primary sources on the characters' personalities growing up & as a result, I do tend to operate under the assumption that this is his backstory.

Because of this, I might be a little biased & in some way think that Clark might've been experiencing that betrayal by Lex all over again &, to be fair, knowing that he hurt Supes so bad, even if it's only on an emotional level, would absolutely thrill Lex & Clark probably knows that.

Like, I wouldn't be surprised if Clark had mostly gotten over the betrayal, but then this shit happens & it's like the wound is fresh all over again.

So, in this situation, Clark has nowhere to really put all that anger than on Connor, which is wrong, but also understandable.

Because, he can't even let Lex know he's upset because it'd just make the other man happy. Why would Superman give him that satisfaction? In other words, he can't really hurt Lex beyond some annoyance which sucks.

On the other hand, Danny & Vlad were never friends, the millionaire's dumbass monologue about killing Jack & marrying Maddie nipped that prospect in the bud in the literal first episode that he appeared in. So discovering that the guy cloned him didn't hurt Danny practically at all other than the violation itself because he'd already dismissed Vlad as a creepy frootloop.

Meanwhile, from the very start, Vlad wanted Danny as his son, so in some form or fashion, he does care & place value on him. It might be a selfish sort of value, but it is value nonetheless. He obviously has zero idea how to show that care & when he tries, it comes out very toxic & harmful, but he does care. Thus, when Danny rejects him, it hurts. And, somewhere, Danny probably knows this.

Which is why he's free to point his anger at Vlad rather than Dani. To point all that anger & frustration at exactly the person that was responsible. Clark doesn't get to do that. At least, not to the extent that he probably wants to.

Whereas in the case of the Christmas debacle, Danny doesn't want to hate his parents, so he finds it easier to take that frustration out on Christmas because Christmas has never made him happy & won't have the same emotional fallout to it that confronting the fact that his parents are selfish & self-absorbed & negligent would.

Because of this, having Danny lecture Superman on not misplacing his anger actually makes him come across as a bit of a hypocrite & it isn't fair because I have yet to see this point brought up in fics. Instead, Danny is portrayed as completely in the right! Like, it'd be one thing if their version of Danny had grown out of displacing his anger & was even trying to actually move on from it.

Hell, they could even make it so Danny is lecturing Supes from the perspective of someone who used to do it himself & is working on getting better at it. But they don't & instead protray him as holier than thou.

At the end of the day, I just don't think that a lot of fic writers, at least, none of the ones I've read about, give the situation the nuance it deserves, instead going the easy route & turning Superman into an irredeemable asshole when he really isn't. Not usually anyway.

In this situation, yeah, he was kinda a dick, but there's a reason & I feel like people either ignore that fact completely or just say "not good enough."

Hell, they don't even take into account the fact that even in Young Justice, where he's an ass, he doesn't stay that way! He eventually accepts Connor, so why harp on him about it!?

Edit: Someone seemed to be under the impression that I thought Superman had it worse. To the contrary, he has it way better.

This isn't a victim contest, it's about understanding why the characters might've reacted the way they did & that has nothing to do with who has it worse.

You don't have to have a bad life to react badly to things. It's all in how you process information & experiences.

Clark just processed the situation in a very bad way in this particular instance.

The point was to show how the 2 aren't all that different. I can easily see the 2's reactions being switched in the right circumstances.

The thing is, I don't understand why not knowing that Connor was also genetically created from Lex would somehow stop Superman from reacting the way he did towards Connor because didn't he know that he himself was Connor's genetic template from pretty much the beginning?

Plenty of people react badly to having a kid regardless of who the other parent was.

DP Character HC Masterlist

#danny phantom #dp #dc #dp x dc #superman #clark kent #connor kent #kal el #kon el #clone rights #debunk superman as a clonophobe #in defense of superman #misandry #sexism #in defense of men #babytrapping #clonophobia #anti clonophobia

[beelz-bub]

Hello fellow scarab enjoyer might i interest you in homophobic homosexual scarab

SO TRUE 💀💀

#He'd get so defensive istg #MAN KISSER!!! #HE LIKES MEN!!!!! #Scarab #the scarab #scarab fionna and cake #fionna and cake #asks #talking nonsense

[ophernelia]

Owen “I don’t fall in love because I don’t really know what it is” Ellison.

#in his defense.. he doesn’t tho #his mom and his dad weren’t the best examples of love growing up #they did their best tho so he tries to do that #aside from tv and movies he really didn’t see it until he saw Imogen and Lou #and still has not seen it at all between men #until…. 👀 lemme not #you’ll see! #lykaia #my characters #*owen ellison #*grey fitzpatrick

[rainecreatesstuff]

something something life series scar is a loner that doesn’t want to be and yet Grian comes to him this season. And there is healing that has been done but he has been on the receiving side of a sword (a fist, a dripstone) too often and. Abandonment left alone shifts to bitterness. Loneliness left alone shifts to fear. Pain left alone, allowed to repeat itself, shifts to acceptance.

It’s not exactly a rejection. No offer of a team or even an alliance is made. There is just a hand around his wrist and a shoulder at his side and arms around his waist and wings shielding him from sun. And Scar gently pulls out of the hold and away from the shoulder and out of the shade and says not again. Not this time. I love you. I love you. No.

And Grian leaves.

and builds close. Not too close, not close enough to hear his gentle snores as he rests or to listen to his absent humming as he builds or register the clacking of the hooves of his lla—… his camel. His camel arriving and leaving.

Just close enough to see. Just close enough to run to if he needs. Wants. Needs?

they’re neighbours, basically. Grian sees him more than he does almost anyone else. Bumps into him, talks to him as often as he can. Turns down his (frankly ridiculous) trade offers. Asks for a heart, and gets it. Feels a sense of relief and pretends he doesn’t know why.

This game is different. Tangibly. There’s a softness, a forgiveness there that hasn’t been there in the past. Friends are staying friends for longer than possible in any of the other games. They all goofed off in a tiny place earlier. No fear. It’s different this time.

maybe

There’s a hope. Small. Nervous. It will fall into chaos eventually. He will kill someone he loves. They all will. It’s how these work.

but. There’s a hope.

maybe it will be different this time. At least a little.

Scar is across the river from him. He’s smiling. He is at a distance, but that distance is a distance that Grian can and… might be willing to walk. Might try to breach.

#Welcome to raine being delusional abt block men #in my defense #I have been stuck in bed all day and have almost thrown up so much today so. I think I get to be a little delirious. #desert duo #gtws #grian #scarian #secret life #slsmp #raine rambles

[lepusrufus]

Sore loser

Angela is losing too but she's just happy to hang out

#i know the Morgue AU is moicy but that bowling voiceline lives in my heart rent free #so these three are still besties #don't @ me I know Cass looks a little wonky #the way I draw beards is the peak example of lesbian that never draws men lmao #in my defense all these sketches are teeny tiny doodles #my art #overwatch #Morgue AU #cole cassidy #pharah #angela ziegler

[kazbiter]

I love you choose us I love you it's always yes with you I love you if it means losing you then no I love you earnest neil

#something abt Andrew denying himself his emotions and Neil just coming in with a fucking sledgehammer like well I!!! care about it so there #is so personal to me #the only person who could break through andrews defenses bc he just kept throwing himself at them and chewing on the corners like the rabid #animal that he is #and when Neil really gets the chance to have the rest of his life and he's immediately like I'm spending it with Andrew. btw. LOVEEEE #andreil #andrew minyard #neil josten #andrew x neil #the foxhole court #all for the game #aftg series #aftg #the kings men #the raven king

[muffingnf]

something that’s really frustrating about this topic in particular is that it is very complex and requires both nuance and critical thinking however because it’s currently taking place in the content creation world, the only people talking about it are content creators who love the sound of their own voice rather than being an impactful part of the conversation

#sorry i’m on break at work and did my catch up #i think everyone who was not there and was not involved needs to shut up about this particular situation #bevause empowering women against abusive and coersive men is great and important and then u go and apply #it to this situation which isn’t That and its not helping anyone #if you overexaggerate the severity of this situation there will be more defense for G and then it just goes round and round #let the man sincerely apologise to C and take accountability for his own actions NOT the actions everyone else is projecting onto him #and let C get closure #the rest is irrelevant talk from irrelevant people #hashtag my opinion #discourse